9th Annual 1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change

The 9th Annual 1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change is organised by AIA Los Angeles’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) and takes place at Loyola Law School on 17 April 2026. The symposium is designed to move the professional conversation on climate response from policy ambition to implementation, with content structured around the practical decisions architects and engineers make at the drawing board, specification stage and project delivery.

Presentations are drawn from practitioners who are actively working to reduce operational and embodied carbon in built projects, with an emphasis on replicable approaches rather than exceptional one-off solutions. The 2026 programme examines methods for carbon reduction that can be applied across a range of project types, scales and budget profiles, making the content directly applicable to everyday practice rather than only to landmark commissions.

For architects and designers in the Los Angeles region with CPD obligations related to sustainability, the symposium provides one of the most technically focused annual opportunities to update knowledge in line with California’s evolving standards. Registration is available through aialosangeles.org.